Lot Essay
The artist, Renée Félicie Varlet de Gibecourt, from Lille, married Adolphe de Watteville (1799-1867) in 1820.
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A young lady, facing left in black velvet dress with lace-bordered white underdress, her black hair dresed in ringlets; foliate and sky background
Details
FÉLICIE DE WATTEVILLE (B. C. 1795)
A young lady, facing left in black velvet dress with lace-bordered white underdress, her black hair dresed in ringlets; foliate and sky background
signed 'Félicie de Watteville' (lower right)
oval, 3 9/16 in. (90 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
A young lady, facing left in black velvet dress with lace-bordered white underdress, her black hair dresed in ringlets; foliate and sky background
signed 'Félicie de Watteville' (lower right)
oval, 3 9/16 in. (90 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Dr Emil Meisel, in 1911.
Berta Pollak, in 1924.
Hermine ('Mitzy') Stiassni Collection, Brno (Brünn), formed for her daughter Mrs Suzanne Martin; Christie's, London, 5 November 1968, lot 127 (130gns.).
Berta Pollak, in 1924.
Hermine ('Mitzy') Stiassni Collection, Brno (Brünn), formed for her daughter Mrs Suzanne Martin; Christie's, London, 5 November 1968, lot 127 (130gns.).
Literature
L. R. Schidlof, Die Bildnisminiatur in Frankreich im XVII., XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhundert, Vienna and Leipzig, 1911, p. 95 (praised as 'vorzügliches Damenporträt'), p. 391, illustrated pl. LVII.
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 868 (described as 'typical').
L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 868 (described as 'typical').
Exhibited
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 940 (lent by Berta Pollak).
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